DirtyLyle – Member

Whenever there's multiple posts on a forum topic I now skip to the end to see who's being a knob, why they're being a knob, and what they're bing knobby about. Just in case I'm missing something vital, like.

wooooaaahhhh-a fellow Convoy fan?

jimmyshand – Member

RNP stop spouting utter drivel.

ok I guess its changed then. I crashed my golf into someone-my fault, fully comp insurance, expired MOT, paid out the 3rd party but not me. Swinton insurance, but going back some years.

Nick_Christy – Member

wow thanks for all that, its great..

heres the 2 in question…

http://www.yt-industries.com/shop/index.php?page=product&info=13

http://www.yt-industries.com/shop/index.php?page=product&info=2

just thought for 100 euro i could get boxxers

they seem good value, especially the Boxxer DH version. XE reckons 2000euro=£1650, is that frame only price?

no MOT=3rd party only insurance.

old news, its a fancy double decker thing that I cant remember the name of.
Your lift pass covers it. We went over a few times but preferred everything over in Arc2000/1800/1600, Black route 8 etc. That was 2006 so it may have changed.

my old Norco in the lift;
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ODI longnecks in 143mm length for big manly sized hands….

………..when they were no longer made in Huntington Beach

sister in law coming home tomoz from 2 years of living/working there. Good money to be had, cold in winters, hot inside appartments due to uncontrollable heating systems, er can't remember what else she said but she's fully had enough and couldnt stand it any longer.

that it dosn't bearing assemblies with grease nipples

Jamesy – Member

It's not really sarkey. It's more a dissapointment
that the work that designers put into things
aren't really picked up by people sometimes.

where's the violins…

he was asking a question your response was uncalled for. I for one have looked at your frames and considered buying one , but for me that just wouldn't happen now after reading this, you've come across as a total arse

see if you can mither Mike Sinyard at 9 o'clock with inane questions and get a reply.

(un)interestng fact-I commissioned the Tempur foam plant in the States.

I hate the stuff and dont enjoy sleeping on a Tempur mattress. We've got a feather mattress toppper instead.

wife was 'diagnosed' as having IBS years ago, suffered for ages with it-nothing really worked. Tried cutting out wheat/gluten and has been fine since. Follows a strict gluten free diet.
Gluten/celiac is quite mis-understood/mis diagnosed, it was only by chance reading something that made her try it

Jamie – Member

I did wonder what Lembit Öpik was doing since he lost his seat…..

damn, sussed. wanna buy some naked Cheeky girl pics?

I feel a remake coming on with the help of a few '2 bricker' ramps

I use Profile cranks and I know its not much use for most people but Profile Racing do the sort of external BB that last more than 6 months. Only useable with 19mm axles though.

proper bearings;
http://www.vintagebmx.com/community/lofiversion/index.php/t27037265.html

working headlights for night rides. seriously.

coffeeking – Member

molgrips – yup, it's real, it's in ladybower res (2 of them). They're the overflow ducts that dump some mental quantity of water if it starts to rain heavily. Don't fall down them, they don't have a safety mesh as far as I know (to prevent blockages that could breach the dam) and they drop out at the bottom of the dam!

woah…..I'd love to go down one of those in a wooden barrel.

I used to take a smart hard case tool box thing on flights to and from France's CDG most weekends. I could have stripped and rebuilt the plane with the tools I had in it. Never any problems, probably not nowadays though, nearly lost my beloved Leatherman Micro on my keyring when I forgot to remove it a few months ago.

sorry, title should have included 'full suspension'. as in 4130/chromoly freeride/all mountain full sussframes

mk1fan – Member

Shortish travel would be 80-100mm not up to 200mm.

put the tape measure and Mbuk guidelines on 'short travel' away and name a frame.

" davidtaylforth – Member

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=52441 "
That Fire Eye is half coke can so dosnt count.
Full chromo only Im afraid.

What about a pair of classic old school vans?
nice soft waffly sole, dirt cheap and dont make you look like you've got a pair of barges on your feet or pair of garish euro disco slippers that match your cowabunga day glo jumpsuit.

good enough for Andy Ruffell

anything with bollock clearance

get some Hutch beartraps and MTFU

http://www.gregterzian.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/hutch_pedals_1.jpg

as above-I had to cut the King deepset out of my Brooklyn when I re-powdercoated it. No way could it be removed 'normally'

thebikechain – Member

yeah i like them-I'd give them awhile for any possible strength/durability issue's to surface but would consider one.

It will more than likely be stronger than most frames on the market seeing as it's CEN rated. You will have a hard time breaking one.

possibly any issue's with the dropout area/inserts rather than the CEN burly front end.

yeah i like them-I'd give them awhile for any possible strength/durability issue's to surface but would consider one.

i spent all night changing the exhaust on my Landrover, think I had the best night

fair play to Jedi for making a living/few quid of out of something he/we enjoy. But to me riding bikes well is…….

riding crappy bikes as kids, everywhere, all the time, you buy a bmx you maybe race it, ride street, park etc, you get a bit older, women kinda get in the way a bit but you still keep riding your bikes, everything else almost becomes secondary to riding bikes after a while-stuff seems to fit around it.
You buy a mountain bike when your knees are too knackered for bmx, you get a hardtail and learn the trade-line choice, corning punch, you get a DH bike and learn to hang it out a bit and jump like you used to jump your bmx all those years ago only faster and further moto style. Forest centres spring up, you go and ride flat out round blind corners knowing there's no horse riders on the other side. You buy a XC and puke on the climbs. You sell the full sus bike knowing your only fooling yourself and you want that mix of wheelie, drift, and punch that only hardtails give outta berms.

You figure out why you cant get thru that berm any quicker, you go back and do it again, and again, and again. You make yourself understand what your weight does. You will crash, if you body dosnt show the scars of crashes you aint learn the hard way. You will hang up on double jumps and send yourself over the bars, fall off logs, and loop out backwards doing wheelies You'll destroy £1000's of bits in the process and buy crap because the ad campaign told you to. You'll covert peices of tube hand welded together in sheds.

You'll get to the bottom of a flat out Alpine descent with smoking brakes and a red hot shock, or ride the steepest loosest rock skree ever, its almost like that Monday morning drive to work on auto pilot. all those thousands of little bike corrections, body movements, subtle weight shifts, line choice, balance. They happened-you didnt think to make them happen……they just did

…..they're in there stored from years of riding.

Anything less is……

cheating?

Having a love/hate relationship with my Bluepig…let me explain

20" frame as im lanky, mainly Lee Quarry, 'back country'/sneaky Rossendale stuff.

Now its possibly THE best frame I've ever owned for flat out hammer the crap out of riding, singletrack and downhilling-I've destroyed an XT/Mavic 321 back wheel in 4months of riding Im hitting stuff that fast. It almost laughs at you for not riding fast enough. But if your not on the ball and having an off day its possibly the crappest frame I've ever ridden. It does reward you for wringing its neck but punishes you if your crap.

It lets itself down especially in the 20" size on tight twisty flowy stuff like up at Lee Quarry-the downhill/outer rim trail is fine but the Red bermed sections are doing my head in that I cant muscle it through quick enough. BMX tracks are the same. Jump on my mates 18" and Im fine but my 20" dosnt inspire me as much. But I guess that one bike cant do everything.

Lacks a bit of 'pop', back end feels 5mm too long and its more of a sit and plow frame rather than manual or hop the entire section at speed.

Thankfully the steel construction, beefy headtube and slack head angle gives confidence of being able to really give it some welly and let it off its leash a bit. Its just that the back wheel then suffers.

The Evil is probably a better geo frame for my kind of riding but is twice the price of a Ragley.

What other car can you do this in on a Sunday and then drive to work Monday morning?
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What other car can you do this with?-not have you wife fix it but be able to cook on the engine?
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Quick motorway services snack-chicken breast wrapped in Parma ham and garlic butter, 20 miles at 60mph. (Garlic prawns only take from Lee Quarry to Hebden Bridge, bacon butties are about the same distance)
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What if this IS your Monday morning office;
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crash out at the end of tiring day with an ice cold beer from your onboard fridge freezer (Engel)
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http://overland-live.blogspot.com/2009/11/expedition-land-rovers-through.html

Im an engineer and have workshop access to tinker on it at work. A properly maintained Lanny to the correct service schedule is no more unreliable than any other car.

A badly maintained or abused example however WILL break the bank unless you know how to fully strip and service sometimes heavy and complex assemblies. An example is a good friend who unwisely didnt take me to look at a nice and shiny 52 plate Defender XS that he bought. It cost him £2k in parts &labour for a service and for the front axle to be rebuilt with new swivels, and four new calipers all round.

Dont be fooled by 'cheap' parts costs-what you see in the magazines from the likes of Paddocks or Craddocks etc is usually Britpart branded crap-yes it is cheap but it will fail very quickly again, ONLY EVER fit genuine LR or OEM sourced parts which obviously cost more.

However I love mine and wouldnt swop it for anything.

Mine

buy one-they're brilliant. Im driving it to Cape Town next year.

also get them from metal working-grinding etc.

got a giant nrs air shock with rebound adjustment in good nick you can have for £15+pp

I've not got a shock pump which would add £20 to the price of things.

whats tire clearance like? looking to run 2.35 highrollers

any more reports for the NS Surge?

Riding a 20" Bluepig at the moment and really not 100% with it. Looking to sell it and buy something else a bit more lively and playfull and a Surge possibly fits the bill.

did you buy one? not getting on with my Bluepig and considering selling it for a NS Surge.

nobody's got a large Sov?

Even Kwik Fit would struggle to get an air con top up wrong, they just connect it to a machine and press the right buttons. A proper recharge drains, pressure tests and refills the system too.

the level of Kwikfit employees would struggle to flip a burger, or salt the fries, what makes you think they'd be able to connect something without damaging it let alone press the right buttons.

and to do all that without pointing out your perfectly fine brakes/shocks/tires/battery etc are knackered and must be changed IMMEDIATELY.

spd's=give up riding through shagged knees.
flats=keep riding.